Deal-a-Day Outlook: More, Maybe Cheaper

Discount deal sites like Groupon.com, LivingSocial.com and Restaurant.com have grown like wildfire over the past few years. Will this trend continue?
Will it ever. Consumer spending on deal-a-day offers, estimated at $873 million in 2010, is forecast to reach $3.9 billion in the U.S. by 2015, says local media advisory firm BIA/Kelsey. That's a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of a whopping 35 percent.
That's not the high estimate, either. BIA/Kelsey's best case scenario ...

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